Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resignation was accepted by the Board of Overseers last November, Dean Hanford commented in an interview, "I have had a lot of fun as Dean, but I think 20 years is long enough and the time has come for a younger...
...pattern that most Englishmen have come to consider as much a part of England as fish, chips and the Royal Family. As in the days when Tennyson, Thackeray, George du Maurier, Sir John Tenniel and A. A. Milne were steady contributors, Punch believes in social satire and good clean fun. It rarely gets any sexier than the recent cartoon of a harassed mother rabbit snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous puns (Henry VIII, after...
Author Caldwell never revises or rereads a line she writes. She does no research ("it would spoil the fun"), picks up her general information about tycoons and industry from "movies and . . . plants I visited." In more difficult business problems-"for instance, when one man must do something to injure the other"-she consults her husband, who studied law. Mr. Reback, whom his wife calls "Tootsie," is a reader of the Wall Street Journal, and "he puts it all in a paragraph. Often I don't in the least understand what it means, but I break up that paragraph...
...number of mousetraps and an old man wielding a blowtorch. There is also a poem by Mary Devolder which goes through the history of English poetry, promoting a four de force of the verse of important periods. Miss Devolder is undoubtedly clever, but the poem isn't very much fun to road, largely because of lines like...
Unsmiling and unexcited, she walked rapidly from tee to green, hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition...